Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Barker

This is a sport where the kids that aren't big enough or fast enough for sports like football or basketball can come in and compete. It's a great way to build up a kid's confidence.

Bobby Knight

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

Bobby Knight

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

Bobby Jackson

Every game is important in the last 20 games; you have to win as many as you can. Whoever is playing the best basketball is going to go to the playoffs. We have to get every win we can and play well.

Don Hogan

West Georgia is very athletic, and you have to earn everything because they play great defense. We must take care of the basketball and play smart.

Don Meyer

If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.

Dave Brubeck

I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.

David Halberstam

There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'

Andy Murray

When I'm in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat.

Alan Green

This does turn the convoy into a bit of a farce,

Paul G. Thomas

We were in man coverage and I think we bit a little bit on the run. It just takes a little bit. That guy was gone. It was a good call. A good call and good execution by their kids.

Carlo Ancelotti

We were in front of a team that had a great rhythm, was very fast and played a great game. Our group came with a little bit more experience and a little luck.

Paul Moreno

We were expecting quite a bit more from the storm. It turned out to be much milder.

Tom Greene

We were down four points and I felt we needed a little bit of a lift energy-wise and sometimes it gets us going. It's a calculated gamble on my part and it worked to our advantage.

Paul Ballew

We were down a little bit from where we expected to be, and the industry was a little softer than we expected it to be.

Justin Brown

We were discouraged and felt a bit betrayed. It was very disappointing to learn that here you have someone you gave an opportunity to and they are stealing from you.

John Manion

While they are a bit young for a team, they are experienced,

Sherry Cooper

While the rise in core prices is a bit uncomfortably high, this stand-alone report is not evidence that soaring energy prices are feeding into other prices.

Bruce Summerhays

The day started out kind of bland, then I made a couple of good par putts early and got things going, ... You always feel good when you play like this. I'm going to have to put up some similar numbers the next two days.

Joe Glenn

He tried hard and ran hard. There were a couple of plays where I thought he should have trusted the point of attack.

Terry Floyd

I don't know if it's emotional but I will realize if we play great or poorly that there is only a couple of weeks left.

Tim Richards

We need all six players to play solid, ... Hopefully we'll get everyone here doing that in the next couple of weeks.

George Pipas

I think the next couple months will be pretty choppy. It will probably be November before we can think about trend sales rates again.

Kyle Poock

He looked sharp tonight. We just wanted to see a couple other guys on the mound and lost it late.

Ryan Lochte

I really want to get into designing my own business suit. I've designed a couple suits for myself that I've worn in the past, and I have a good idea of what I want and need to use.

Van Jones

...we're going to be in an economic slowdown for a couple of years. So to take three months, four months, six months to spend this money the right way-we're not going to get a chance to spend a trillion dollars again! Ever. So let's do it the right way.

Robyn Hitchcock

I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them.

Richard Skaggs

I'm not willing to give up on the Nasdaq today. It is only down a few points and we're not seeing a lot of weakness.

Simon Clarke

I'm happy where I finished and I'm looking forward to the next few months of racing.

Chris Gomez

It's more weird than I thought it would be, ... But after a few starts you get adjusted.

Mary Sullivan

It's a little early. It's settling in. I think people will get in gear in the next few weeks.

Chad Olson

It was a solid game throughout. We were up one at the half (24-23), then down one after three (40-41). Bozeman made a few plays down the stretch, and we had some good looks but just couldn't convert.

Mo Johnston

It was interesting. It was good practice. It's always good to see them in a different light so we put them on the big field. There were a few plusses and a few minuses.

David Seiders

It was impossible to maintain double-digit price inflation like we've seen the past few years.

Terry Ebbert

It's a very slow rise, and it will remain so until we plug that breach. I think we can get it stabilized in a few hours.

Tom Verica

Myself, I happen to be married to an African-American woman, and we're together 17 years. We took a few trips to the South 15 years ago, and we were sobered by some of the reactions people had - how subtle or not-so-subtle their reactions were.

Chad Knaus

I am really proud of what my guys were able to accomplish.

Josh Hood

I am really proud of these guys and can't say enough about them.

David Dauzat

I am very excited. I am very happy for the guys as they worked really hard for it. I am proud of them.

Bobby Cox

I always worry about the integrity of the game, when guys miss, but, in these cases, they're all legitimate injuries and they can't help it,

Bob Moore

Carl is on the road and has multiple interviews set this week and into next week. A lot of guys are involved.

Steve Begin

But we talked after the first period and we went out and did everything we wanted. Guys went to the net and were rewarded with goals.

Andre Patterson

But we knew they were tough. Those guys just kept coming. It was like they thought they should win.

Jack Parker

But these guys ... they were fine. They didn't play like they had butterflies. They may have had them, but it didn't show.

R. Robinson

Basically, what it's doing is letting those guys who can run make the play. And they have linebackers that can run and make plays.

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alberto Salazar

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Alec Baldwin

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!

Aldous Huxley

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

Alia Shawkat

American shows can go on for 20 years. I respond more to the British format. Three seasons is a long run for them to tell a story.

Ali Smith

You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.

Adolf Galland

As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.

E. O. Wilson

The solutions like freezing zygotes, fertilized eggs, of all kinds of animals and so on, or keeping them in zoos and having arboreta where we have trees, all these things have been promoted. Even getting the complete genetic code of various fishes so we can let them pass away and then we'll pull them back. That is science fiction run amok.

Drew Barrymore

I know what the intimidation level of high school is. You're on a hamster wheel, running, running, running, trying so hard to fit in. It's all about how you deal with what you're given, feeling OK with being the odd man out before you're finally successful.

Christian Siriano

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

Ziggy Marley

I don't chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody.

Zhuangzi

Why don’t you try wandering with me to the Palace of Not-Even-Anything

Zhuangzi

To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.

Tyra Banks

I try to keep my private life kind of private.

Ty Segall

Trying to say something is all you got in life.

Ty Olsson

I'm a bit of a goofball; I don't have a lot of censors and I don't have a lot boundaries and I'm trying to remember that the world is watching.

Twiggy

I want to continue to try and break the barrier between male and female.

Vladimir Putin

Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton is focusing on a different part of the voters trying to influence them in her own way as well; so they attack each other [with Donald Trump].